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END OF HISTORY

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END OF HISTORY
Dir. Jacob Gregor, 2025.
United States. 82 min.
In English.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 – 7:30 PM (Q&A with director Jacob Gregor)
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 – 7:30 PM (Q&A with director Jacob Gregor)
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 – 5PM

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I am following the process. I am a success. Visualize success. I am following the process. You will not touch your cock. You will not cum. I am visualizing it. My mind is the stock market. I am stoic. You will not touch your cock. You will not touch your cock. You will not touch your cock. The stocks are rising. All time highs. Growing.

Influenced and accompanied by manosphere mantras and motivational content, a young man sets out on a road trip through the North American continent, from his home in the Midwest all the way to Alaska, on a quest for self-optimization, in Jacob Gregor’s END OF HISTORY, a quiet yet fierce satire that is frequently funny, often absurd and always lonely. The voices of content creators preaching pop stoicism and the grievances of Canadian conservative talk radio haunt the stunning natural vistas and endless suburban sprawl of his northward journey, with nothing to be found and nothing to feel alongside the frozen lakes, at the feet of snow-covered mountains, in strip mall parking lots, gas stations and motel honeymoon suites.

Influenced by the landscape films of James Benning, the film also recalls an old saw from director Alex Cox that every road movie is about the death of the American dream. END OF HISTORY certainly qualifies, but it is notable for the sobriety and wit with which it approaches the current post-dream post-history American nightmare. Unlike the road movies of the seventies and early-eighties that Cox may have had in mind (mentioning this idea in his Moviedrome intro for Robert Aldrich’s 1981 wrestling road movie …ALL THE MARBLES aka THE CALIFORNIA DOLLS), there is no naive belief in the dream to be shattered along the road as the film unfolds. END OF HISTORY doesn’t gradually reveal the hollowness and broken promises so much as use them as its essential foundation and point of departure, situating itself and us in a uniquely hopeless time and place in the American landscape.

FANBOY

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FANBOY
Dir. Bean McKee, 2025.
United States. 83 min.
In English.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12 – 5 PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 – 7:30 PM (with Q&A with actor/director Jon Washington and editor/producer Stephen Mlinarcik)
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 – 10 PM (with Q&A with actor/director Jon Washington and editor/producer Stephen Mlinarcik)

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Awkward young man Allen (Jon Washington) moves into the heart of The Ohio State University campus just in time for football season. Though not enrolled at the school, his pilgrimage to the epicenter of Buckeye Country is both the dream of a die-hard fan and an attempt to connect to his estranged father, himself an alumnus of the university. But no one seems to appreciate the game the way he does. Nobody else gets it. Alienated among his fellow fans, he grows increasingly desperate, drifting across the sea of scarlet, the threat of violence beneath each misunderstanding, bruised ego, and uncomfortable interaction.

Shot guerrilla-style on the OSU campus, FANBOY captures the details and decadence of Midwestern football culture with a documentarian’s eye, but never lets go of the tension at the core of the character study, allowing the fraying of Allen’s psyche to play out against the game day excitement and day-after-game day comedowns, on a foundation of Natty Ice cans and beer pong debris. Someday a real rain will come and wash the Solo cups from the frat house lawns.

NEW HOME

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NEW HOME
Dir. Anthony Macera, 2025.
United States. 74 min.
In English.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 – 7:30 PM (Q&A w/ Filmmakers Mike Macera and Adam McAlonie, moderated by Alfred Giancarli)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 7:30 PM (Q&A w/ Filmmakers Mike Macera and Adam McAlonie, moderated by Alfred Giancarli)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 5 PM

“Anthony Macera was gifted a video camera in the late 90s. Alongside his trusty sidekick Sandy Girl, he began to capture his life from there. The first tape is titled New Home.”

Filmmaker Mike Macera unearths home movie footage from his father’s first video camera and pays tribute to him in NEW HOME, a new archival documentary by the director of ALICE-HEART. Framed by the first three Christmases at Macera’s childhood home, the film charts the construction of the house itself, the development of the family unit, the milestones of early childhood and the lightning storms over South Jersey. Through Anthony’s eye and viewfinder, we experience the intimacy and joy of fatherhood and the wonder and thrill of capturing it. NEW HOME is a personal reflection on the life of a home and the role of cinema in building it.